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ἄιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄιρος ἄιρᾱ ἄιρον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unhappy Irus

Examples

  • ‐ ἀλλὰ τὸν εὐτυχίᾳ λαμπρὸν ἄν τισ αἱροῖ μοῖρα πάλιν· (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • αἴροι’ ἂν αὖθισ ὦ παῖ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, lyric1)
  • Πότερον οὖν τρέχων τισ αἱροῖ ἂν θᾶττον ἢ πετόμενοσ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 3:12)

Synonyms

  1. unhappy Irus

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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